This is my #2 favorite book, and I also gravitate toward re-reading favorites when life is stressful. Everything about the writing seems so natural - I recall telling a friend that The Wedding Bash chapter was like attending a family wedding as it (to me at least) captured just how people behave and talk at a wedding or big family event, and I consider the passage in the labyrinth one of the most beautifully written scenes ever.

I’m also just a few years younger than the Holly character, and the last episode makes me wonder about the future and hope that it will be less bleak.